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All (eventually) of my results will be made openly available. I have also reached out to investigate every case of alleged "human... or unknown primate results" that I have heard of, over many years. @MIB used above the word "lore" to describe these results - and that is overwhelmingly what such results appear to be. In most cases, I have found that the DNA tests that supposedly had these results were not even conducted. Todd Disotell did conduct many analyses, some with "human" results, but did not retain any data. IIRC, Sykes (at least, for what he published) did not receive any results of this nature. The one thing the Ketchum folks did correctly was finally share their data - which is why we know that their conclusions are completely wrong, as @hvhart did the Herculean task of reanalyzing everything (I independently reanalyzed much of their data and my analyses concur with Hart's species identifications 100%). I know of only two other DNA tests with such "odd" results that appear to have actually been completed on North American samples, but the sequences were never shared for either of them and have not been retained. If *anyone* has sequences or lab reports regarding the genetic analysis of alleged Sasquatch samples, please reach out to me - but I have come to think that we are indeed practically at square one not just for retaining sequences, but for even doing much generating of sequences to begin with (and I'm glad to be working to fill this gap).

Thank you, Darby, for attempting to get us on track. It just takes better organization, record keeping and communication on top of good science. Best of luck!

You sure, quantum mechanics and all, better check between the pixels in a steganography kind of way! We're missing a red knit cap and red plaid loggers shirt from those events so I'm sure there is a well-dressed Sasquatch that's easily identifiable anyhoo. Pictures will still be blurry per normal. I really just happened upon them and thought @joebeelart and others in that area might get more out of it, but I am getting of the age where old news is archival treasure, lol. That means you are very welcome.

I'm just adding these last two for their humorous value. I may not have been successful, I'd be much obliged if someone would let me know if you can reed the .pdf files. 1875 PA New Castle FU2.pdf 1875 PA New Castle FU3.pdf

I just want to add a small grain or two of information to the research done by tirademan (RIP). If one reads the first article, who doesn't imagine an encounter with a gorilla or a gorilla-like animal? The details are remarkable. I believe that it is extremely unlikely that gorilla behavior was well-known in small-town America in 1875. From https://a-z-animals.com/articles/when-were-gorillas-first-discovered-why-was-it-so-late/ a gorilla skull was discovered by an American explorer in 1847 and French explorers actually sighted gorillas in in the late 1850s. An English explorer, Richard F. Burton, didn't publish Two Trips to Gorilla Land... until 1876, and then in England; this was after this newspaper article was published. It appears that the first type specimens were not brought back to Europe, by German explorers, until 1902. So where did the author of the article learn about this gorilla-like behavior? While the article's author is identified as John Nemo ("no one" in Latin), that is not necessarily a red flag. Bigfoot witnesses today wish to remain anonymous and that could be the sole reason for the use of a pseudonym. The article was published in a Christmas circular (i.e., a one-off to advertise Christmas shopping specials). In the second article above, the story is attributed, without corroboration or specificity, to "a New Castle newspaperman," which makes little sense as the effect of the story was to frighten the locals and the story may have kept shoppers away from New Castle. While the second article above claims that the owner of a minstrel show decided to take advantage of the article by pretending to capture the ape-man, nothing in the article suggests that the pretend ape-man resembled the creature described in the first article. As late as approximately 1887, Bob Hunting's "circus" was a one ring circus whose main attraction was a tight rope walker. And while Bob Hunting's minstrel show went on to become a very successful circus owner, there is no suggestion that it ever had gorillas, although it did have its fair share of scandals. Some additional articles relating to Bob Hunting and his circus follow.

Standing goes into extremely remote country and puts more time in than 99% of the "researchers" on the subject. Geniusis learn from fools every day. Listen to all, discern for yourself, and log it as data. To be fair, we are talking about a mythical forest beast here, and all of us are deemed crazy by the mainstream. Stroud had to start somewhere and I look forward to seeing where his journey has taken him over the past 5 years or however long it's been since he finished the Survivorman Bigfoot series. Stroud hasn't revealed much about the contents of his upcoming film. Let's not turn this into a Standing thread haha there are already enough of those